Case Study: Pearson boosts compliance 63% and manages £300M+ in spend with Coupa Software

Leader in education increases compliance by 63% with 87% user approval

Pearson Education, a FTSE 100 leader in education with 34,000 employees and roughly £2.5B+ annual spend, faced fragmented procurement systems that left the company without clear spend visibility, contract data, or consistent compliance across the business.

Pearson implemented Coupa’s Business Spend Management suite — including Procurement, Invoicing, Contracts, Analytics, Supplier Information Portal and SSO — to centralize processes and drive adoption. Results included a 63% increase in compliance (from 22% to 85%), over £300M managed on the platform in six months, PR-to-PO times under 24 hours, 25,000 global users, and 87% user approval.

Pearson

Dan Cameron

SVP Procurement